Level 4


Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:

Social studies

Understand how the ways in which leadership of groups is acquired and exercised have consequences for communities and societies.
Understand how people pass on and sustain culture and heritage for different reasons and that this has consequences for people.
Understand how exploration and innovation create opportunities and challenges for people, places, and environments.
Understand that events have causes and effects.
Understand how producers and consumers exercise their rights and meet their responsibilities.
Understand how formal and informal groups make decisions that impact on communities.
Understand how people participate individually and collectively in response to community challenges.





http://kidspeak.wikispaces.com/

Student voice

Have you ever wondered what’s going through the minds of the students sitting in front of you each day in your classroom?
What we want from our teacher.
What we want from our teacher.

At Tawa Intermediate they decided to find out what it was that 21st century learners wanted from their school. Two Tawa Intermediate teachers and a small group of students planned an inquiry based on the question 'What goes through the minds of young learners as they prepare for an unknown future?' They recorded their findings on a wiki calledKidspeak.

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Term 2

Behind the Scenes ... Museums

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Term 1


Camp and Tramps in New Zealand


What do people like about tramping?

We said ....
To get fit
To look at the view
Take photos of nature
Relate to others
To get out of the house
Feel free
Have a challenge and try new things
to enjoy life and have fun
see the great outdoors
To get back to nature
To have a picnic and try fishing
experience a different kind of day


Make a poster in your group that could be used in schools around NZ that conveys the message "School Camps are great for kids"



Asian Celebrations and Festivals


Principles

  • Community engagement - globalisation
  • Future focused themes - citizenship

Values

  • Diversity, as found in our different cultures, languages, and heritages
  • Respect for themselves, others, and human rights
  • Community and participation for the common good

Conceptual understandings

  • Celebrations reflect cultural practices which are important in all cultures
  • Traditional celebrations can adapt and change when they take place in new contexts
  • Asian celebrations influence aspects of New Zealand society

Achievement objective

Level 4 – Understand how people pass on and sustain culture and heritage for different reasons and that this has consequences for people.

Key concepts

Culture, interaction, identity, citizenship, time, change, tradition, whānau, community, migration, participation, remembrance, commemoration, ritual, protocol, heritage, ancestry, symbolism, diversity
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Our suggestions for areas of study ...

Indonesia

Germany

The Navy


Criminals


Mongolia


China

Poland

Mars

Abriham Lincoln

DNA

Air Force

Egypt

Core of the Earth

Dinasours Fossils


Kate Shepard


conspiracy theories


Old fashioned guns

cricket players